Form of plates and rollers to ornament sheet materials



Jul 28, 1925.

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Application fled August 14, 1924. Serial No. 781,940. To all whom it mayconcern: Referring now to the accompanying Be it known that I, JAY OTISBenn, a drawing, wherein like reference characters citizen. of theUnited- States, resldm at represent corresponding parts, Figure 1 rep-Bo ota, in the county of Bergen and tate resents a section of the masterprinting sur- 5 of ew Jerse have invented a new and face, which may beeither male or female, to novel Form 0 Plates and Rollers to Ornasuchterms being used in the art to refer ment Sheet Materials, of which thefollow-- to raised or intaglio surfaces respectively, ing is aspecification. as previously described. In this instance The object ofthe invention is to proa male roller isselected as offering a simplevide' a novel form of lates and rollers to Illustration of the app i n fy inVen- 65 ornament sheet materia s such as paper, textion, although itwill pe evident that both tile fabrics and the like, and the method oftypes of rollers may 'be used, without demaking the same. parting fromthe splrit of my invention. The invention provides a method for mak- Themaster printlng surface may be either ing platesandrollers forornamenting sheet hand-engraved or made by the photo-me- 7 I materials,which differs from'the methods ellanie l pro ess; and it will be notedthat di il d i th i t t ti surface areas appear on this roller for thelars; first, in that one master printing surprlntlng of all the colorsdes1red; a repface is made with all the printing"'surfaces n ng 'pinting Surface to rint one appearing thereon for all the colors thatlor, b representing such sur ace as is are desired on the finishedproduct; second, deslred 1n another color, and c and d? in that severalcolor printing rollers are epresentln surfaces for printing otheradmade, from said master printing surface; d tlonal co ors.

and third, in that a method is provided for Fi%1re 2 illustrates theroller for print:

making embossing rollers, when desired, ing 1: color surface a, with allthe porfrom the master printing surface. trons of theroller notnecessary for print- More specifically, the invention provides: g t 1 1a? r nted oil"- Figure 3 rep- 'Fi t1 f va te i ti f resents the sectionof the roller necessary which may be made either by hand engravo p n l gh With. the p 30 ing or photo-mechanical processes, all the tlons forprinting the other colors rendered printing surfaces for all the colorsdesired P lgure 4: represents the poron the finished product appearingon the tion of the roller necessary for prlnting the one surface. colora; and Figure 5 represents the pors ndl d li at u h l ct t p 'tlon ofthe roller necessary for printing the stereotypes, transferred andetched dupli- 1 1 Wlth other surfaces routed off. cates, or the like,are then made from this .It will be evident that these duplicate masterprinting surface. As many duplirollers need not be electrotype rollers;for cate rollers are made from the master prlntwithmthe scope of myinvention, duplicates ing surface as may be desired for the sev- 'of'theoriginal master printing surface may 40 eral colors; surfaces on saidduplicate rollbe made in other ways; such as, for iners that would printother areas than destance, the taking of impressions from the sired forthe one color on each roller are original master printing surface,transfertreated so they will not print, as by routing ring them torollers, and then treating suroff projecting surfaces or fillingintaglio face areas other than the one necessary to 45 surfaces. Thusthe several color printing print the one particular color, so thatcolors rollers are made without engraving each not desired will notprint. roller separately. It should be noted that Having thus describedand illustrated my difliculties of registration are avoided in inventionwhat I claim is: that the duplicates of the master printing 1. Themethod of making an embossing F surface are all in perfect registration.roller comprising the making of a master Thirdly, embossing rollers maybe made printing surface having surfaces for ornafrom the masterprinting surface, or from menting in several colors, making an emortionsof it, by makin duplicates with bossing roller from this master printinsurollow'portions in the ro er for such surface and treating saidembossing ro er so faces as may be desired to lie embossed. thatsurfaces appearing on said master printing surfaces not necessary toembossappearing thereon for all the coiprs in a ing in accordance with apreconceived depreconceived design, with such portions in sign arerendered inoperative on the emthe embossing roller that are not desiredto H) bossing roller. emboss rendered inoperative in the emboss- 2. Anembossing roller for ornamenting' ing roller sheet material comprising acomplement of a master prmting surface with surface area JAY OTIS BALL.

